Although the first overall selection in the 1987 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft became a 13-time All-Star, the second overall selection never played in an MLB game. Which proves that baseball is just as incomprehensible as cricket.

In Nano Riantiarno's Semar Gugat the main character Semar (not pictured), traditionally a symbol of the people, uses a magic fart.

Ruut Veenhoven knows a lot about happiness.

Singaporean politician Chew Swee Kee got robbed of his trousers while on a family holiday. And a former Norwegian politican got robbed of all his clothes. AFAPR.

Eugène Hénard envisaged roof-top helicopter landing pads in 1910, before helicopters had been invented. Just like the russians who invented the napking ring before the napkin was invented by a frenchman.

Berit Brænne's first children's book, from 1958, is a story about a sailor's family who adopted children from different parts of the world. Very likely pibbuyr has read that book or heard it on the readio.

Tokujiro Kanamori responded to over a thousand questions in defence of the Constitution of Japan, with his answers taking up to an hour and a half each.

Mathematician Zhang Yitang proposed a proof that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers with a prime gap of 70 million or less. You may not want to know this. Pibbur does.